🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uthina (Oudhna)
Numidian to Early Islamic (2nd c BCE–9th c CE; peak 2nd–4th c) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine / Early Islamic
90-ha Augustan veteran colonia with half-buried 16,000-seat amphitheatre and Zaghouan-fed baths.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Mactaris (Makthar)
Numidian to Byzantine (8th c BCE-10th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Highland city with dolmens and schola.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Utica
Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Late Antique · Phoenician / Roman
Phoenician port 1101 BCE now 12 km inland due to siltation; Roman capital of Africa with waterfall mosaic house.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburbo Majus
Punic to Late Roman (Berber–Punic village to 5th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c) · Berber / Punic / Roman / Early Christian
55 ha roadside city with Capitolium, twin baths 3,800 m², and Temple of Baalit-Caelestis on Carthage–Theveste road.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Sicca Veneria (El Kef)
Numidian to Ottoman (5th c BCE-16th c CE; peak 1st-4th c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine / Islamic
Rock citadel of Venus with baths.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Ain-Djoukar
Ain-Djoukar also known as Jougar (Arabic: جوقار spelled when available with a special local character ڤ accounting for its [g] pronunciation) is a locality in Tunisia, located at 36° 14' 50" N, 9°…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Thapsus – Submerged Mole & Caesar Harbour at Ras Dimas
Punic to Byzantine (8th c. BCE – 7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Roman
Caesar battle harbour — kilometer-long curving mole now 1–4 m offshore on Bekalta promontory.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thubursicum Bure
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Thubursicum Bure (modern Téboursouk) controls the Khalled–Siliana pass, a Berbero-Roman municipium with Massylian roots.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Ruspina – Caesarian Harbour of Monastir
Punic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 6th c. CE) · Punic / Caesarian Roman
Caesar's 46 BCE supply port opposite Thapsus — Punic mole slabs now under Monastir fishing lagoon at –1 to –2 m.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Leptis Minor
Phoenicio-Punic to Byzantine (8th c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd c. BCE–4th c. CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Leptis Minor (Leptiminus, modern Lamta) was Byzacena's other Leptis, Phoenician 8th c. BCE foundation distinct from Libyan Leptis Magna.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uchi Maius (Henchir Douamis)
Numidian to Late Antique (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Hill town 20 km from Dougga with Severan arch and aqueduct.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburnica (Sidi Ali Belgacem)
Roman (Late Republic to Late Antiquity; peak 1st–3rd c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Veteran colonia near Chemtou with monumental Roman bridge and basilica.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thigibba Bure (Djebba) – Hilltop Sanctuary
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c BCE – 7th c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Ridge refuge 540 m above Bagrada plain, Thigibba Bure preserves Punic walls, Roman sanctuary terrace, mausoleum, baths and Christian basilica with mosaics, amid fig orchards famed...
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburbo Parvum
Carthaginian to Byzantine (4th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Punic / Roman
Sister city to Thuburbo Majus with olive press park (15 presses).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uchi Minus (Henchir Rhar ez-Zaatli)
Roman (1st c. BCE–6th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Smaller twin to Uchi Maius on Khalled tributary with haouanet tombs.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thala (Plateau Fortress)
Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
High-plateau Jugurthine citadel (1,017 m) with Byzantine pentagon fort.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thimisica (Henchir Mehonine)
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Road town between Mejez el-Bab and Beja with porticoed forum and fort.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Zitha (Ziana)
Punic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Punic / Roman (Tripolitana)
Causeway waystation over sebkha between Zarzis and Gigthis.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uzappa (Ksour Abd el Melk)
Roman to Byzantine (1st–7th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Dorsal pass town with Byzantine fortress reusing temple blocks, forum and basilica; controls Kairouan–Gafsa road.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Taparura
Berber-Punic to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Berber-Punic-Roman civitas beneath Sfax with salting vats and church mosaics.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Limisa (Ksar Lemsa)
Roman to Hafsid (2nd c. BCE–15th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine / Islamic
Hilltop municipium with amphitheatre reused as Borj fortress.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thelepte (Feriana / Medinet el-Kdima)
Roman to Byzantine (1st c CE – 7th c CE; colonia under Trajan) · Roman / Byzantine (Byzacena)
Byzacena road city at Sahara edge, Thelepte flourished as Byzantine dux capital with massive fortress (1.2 km circuit) built from Roman spolia, two basilicas with mosaics, baths an...
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Eles, Tunisia
Eles (also transliterated as Ellès and Al Las) is a village in the Siliana Governorate, Tunisia. It is located around 35°56′55″N 9°5′50″E, about 13 km northwest of Maktar in Siliana Governorate.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Leptiminus (Lemta) – Submerged Harbour of Byzacena
Phoenician to Early Islamic (8th c. BCE – 698 CE) · Punic / Roman African
Punic-Roman Olive-capital port whose factory quays and baths lie –1 to –3 m along Lamta beach with visible bollard stones.